The Networked Grid: Smart Grid Data and Analytics: One of the panels I will be moderating at next week's Netwo...

One of the panels I will be moderating at next week's Networked Grid will focus on smart grid data and analytics. Data analysis is a field that has been rapidly evolving in a wide swath of industries over the past twenty years. Titled Beyond Meter-to-Cash: Improving Business Processes with AMI Data and Analytics the panel brings together senior executives from several companies actively involved in meter data management and analysis: Aclara, eMeter, Energent and Elster. Turning raw smart meter data into actionable business intelligence is an area where the soft grid is very immature - a key finding of a report on meter data management that we issued last year. To put things in perspective; most industries have followed a twenty year evolution in data and analytics, and we expect the utility industry to follow a similar evolutionary path - albeit on a condensed timeframe. T...